mg AlternativesText Editors and other similar apps like mg

mg is described as 'This is a portable version of the Mg editor from OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer who did a bunch of overhaul work on the version of Mg found in the OpenBSD base system' and is a Text Editor in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to mg for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Haiku apps. The best mg alternative is Vim, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like mg are GNU Emacs, GNU nano, Micro and CudaText.

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  1. Vim icon

    Vim

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    Vim ("Vi IMproved") is an advanced text editor that allows syntax highlighting, word completion and has a huge amount of contributed content. It also has a GUI version called GVim.

    212 Vim alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
    • AmigaOS
    • OpenSolaris
    • MorphOS
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Snapcraft
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    • Vim is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to mg.

    • Vim is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to mg.

    • Vim is Free and Open Sourcemg is also Free and Open Source
    • Vim is Lightweight and Customizablemg is not according to our users
  2. GNU Emacs icon

    GNU Emacs

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    GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing. The features of GNU Emacs include:

    178 GNU Emacs alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • F-Droid
    • Haiku
    • Debian
    • MacPorts
    • Homebrew
    The GNU Emacs Manual calls Emacs the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor
     

    • GNU Emacs is the most popular Android alternative to mg.

    • GNU Emacs is Free and Open Sourcemg is also Free and Open Source
    • GNU Emacs is Customizable, Privacy focused and Lightweightmg is not according to our users
  4. GNU nano icon

    GNU nano

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    GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor. Besides basic text editing, nano offers many extra features like an interactive search and replace, go to line and column number, auto-indentation, feature toggles, internationalization support, and filename tab completion.

    152 GNU nano alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
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  5. Micro icon

    Micro

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    Micro is a terminal-based text editor that aims to be easy to use and intuitive, while also taking advantage of the full capabilities of modern terminals.

    43 Micro alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
    Micro screenshot 1
     
  7. Ox editor icon

    Ox editor

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    Ox is a code editor. It was written in Rust using ANSI escape sequences. It assists developers with programming by providing several tools to speed up and make programming easier and a refreshing alternative to heavily bloated and resource hungry editors such as VS Code and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    Ox editor screenshot 1
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  9. McWig

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    McWig is a modal, Vim-like text editor written in Go.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Go (Programming Language)
    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  10. Tilde icon

    Tilde

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    Tilde is a text editor for the console/terminal, which provides an intuitive interface for people accustomed to GUI environments such as Gnome, KDE and Windows. Example: copy current selection is Control-C; paste previously copied text is Control-V.

    128 Tilde alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  11. Traditional Ex - Vi editor icon

    Traditional Ex - Vi editor

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    The vi editor is one of the most common text editors on Unix. It was developed starting around 1976 by Bill Joy at UCB, who was tired of the ed editor. But since he used ed as a code base, access to the original sources has required a commercial Unix Source Code License for more...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    Vi session editing, tildes signify lines not present in the file.
     

  12. Vis

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    Vis aims to be a modern, legacy-free, simple yet efficient editor, combining the strengths of both vi(m) and sam. It extends vi's modal editing with built-in support for multiple cursors/selections and combines it with sam's structural regular expression based command...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    Vis screenshot 1
     
  13. ne icon

    ne

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    ne is a text editor based on the POSIX standard that runs (we hope) on almost any UN*X machine. ne is easy to use for the beginner, but powerful and fully configurable for the wizard, and most sparing in its resource usage.

    42 ne alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    ne screenshot 1
     
  14. Vy icon

    Vy

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    vy is a modal editor with a very modular architecture. vy is built on top of Tkinter which is one of the most productive graphical toolkits; It permits vy to have such a great programming interface for plugins.

    165 Vy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Vy screenshot 1
     
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